I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Canva (Sydney)
Interview
I had three interviews, two were mostly introductions to the Talent Recruiter and leader of the team my role was under. The third was with the Creative Leads of the Brand Team, which was along the lines of a typical designer interview, where I had the opportunity to talk through two of my projects.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was the thinking behind the name of your project?
I applied online. I interviewed at Canva (Sydney) in Apr 2021
Interview
1- Initial phone interview with the recruiter
2- Presenting one product design past work
3- Take-home product design exercise
4- Career chronology interview
5- Final interview with the Design manager
I got rejected after the career chronology, although I aced all of my previous steps (based on their direct and afterward interview feedback sessions), which was very strange.
They said I've got rejected because I said that I had to 'fight' for some ideas in my current company, which was just a poor choice of word by me. Although as a product designer in some situations, it's needed to stand for your research-backed and logical ideas. I've hadn't a single case of fight in my entire 8+ years of career.
The case that they relied on one word to evaluate my communication skills after those extensive challenges like the task and case study presentation is bizarre and made me very disappointed.
I even sent an email expressing my feedback and explaining what I meant by "fighting" and the interviewer didn't reply. At this point, I felt very frustrated because they could easily respond to a candidate who put much time and work into the interview process. I deserved a better response.
The take-home task will cost you more than what they ask (2-3 hours). I hope they had the career chronology first and then ask for the exercise and past work presentations. And also find better ways to evaluate communication skills.
The process took six weeks, and I put more than four days into the task and past work presentation combined.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What would your manager say if we ask him about your skills which need improvements
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Canva
Interview
This was for a front-end role
1. phone interview with hr recruiter, at the end of which they will show you a set of javascript code, and ask you what the output should be
2. a technical interview with a dev
3. Four 45 minute interviews: 1 with hr, the other 3 were technical
The recruiter followed up with feedback :>